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Clapham Junction Insider (CJI) is a community news media for Clapham Junction, Battersea, Wandsworth and around. www.cjag.org

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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🚉 A few steps. Twelve years. Still locked. Queenstown Road station’s entrance was meant to be a simple addition to a #Battersea development. Permission came in 2014; works finished in 2025. Yet nothing is happening. WHY?? Read: www.cjag.org/2026/10/10/a...
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A few steps, twelve years: the Queenstown Road entrance fiasco
The new entrance to Queenstown Road station was supposed to be a straightforward addition to the major Battersea housing development completed in 2020. More than a year after construction finished, it...
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Exclusive interview on #Wandsworth financial crisis and tax rise ⬆️ Ping: @thechelseacitizen.bsky.social @thelondonjournal.bsky.social @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social @wandsworthlabour.bsky.social @wandsworthlibdems.uk @wandsworth.bsky.social @aydindikerdem.bsky.social @artglyn.bsky.social
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🏛️ EXCLUSIVE: Cabinet Member for Finance Peter Graham's first interview since the Tories narrowly retook Wandsworth Council. He confirms council tax could rise by up to 230% on the council's share in a "do-nothing" scenario. 🔎 www.cjag.org/2026/09/21/i... #Wandsworth #CouncilTax
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Thread ⬆️ #Wandsworth Council in turmoil Ping: @thechelseacitizen.bsky.social @thelondonjournal.bsky.social @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social @wandsworthlabour.bsky.social @wandsworthlibdems.uk @wandsworth.bsky.social @aydindikerdem.bsky.social @artglyn.bsky.social
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
3/3 🧵 The Conservatives say Wandsworth faces a £137m financial crisis. Now 5 council-house schemes have been cancelled, ring-fenced funds scrapped and the Leader’s Office dismantled. But the measures announced so far save only around £6m a year. What comes next? www.cjag.org/2026/08/08/r...
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Resignations, chaos and financial crisis: The difficult first months of Wandsworth's Conservatives
Wandsworth's Conservatives returned to power in May with the thinnest of majorities — one seat, propped up by a single independent. Since then, the borough has gone through a leader's resignation afte...
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
2/3 🧵 The new administration promised more openness and accountability. Yet Wandsworth’s normal scrutiny committees were suspended just as major decisions were being taken. With the council in turmoil, what happened to democratic scrutiny? www.cjag.org/2026/08/08/r...
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Resignations, chaos and financial crisis: The difficult first months of Wandsworth's Conservatives
Wandsworth's Conservatives returned to power in May with the thinnest of majorities — one seat, propped up by a single independent. Since then, the borough has gone through a leader's resignation afte...
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
1/3 🧵 Wandsworth’s new Conservative administration has had a turbulent start. Its leader resigned after just 75 days. His successor, Robert Morritt, won by a single vote — then two Cabinet members quit. What is going on at Wandsworth Town Hall? #elections #wandsworth www.cjag.org/2026/08/08/r...
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Resignations, chaos and financial crisis: The difficult first months of Wandsworth's Conservatives
Wandsworth's Conservatives returned to power in May with the thinnest of majorities — one seat, propped up by a single independent. Since then, the borough has gone through a leader's resignation afte...
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
🎾🌳⚖️Ping ⬆️ @lovebattersea.bsky.social @thechelseacitizen.bsky.social @aydindikerdem.bsky.social @thelondonjournal.bsky.social @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social @wimbledonpark.bsky.social @putneynews.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @mertoncouncil.bsky.social
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
🧵 3/3 ⚖️ Three legal battles remain live: a planning appeal, a bid to appeal the trust ruling, and a dispute over 1993 covenants AELTC admits it would breach. Merton council has yet to say if it will enforce them. #PublicLand #PlanningLaw #HighCourt
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
🧵 2/3 📐 🌳 An alternative plan exists — from Richard Rees, architect behind Henman Hill and Number One Court. It proposes 21 courts (not 38) and a 5,000-seat show court, prioritising circulation and flow over encroachment onto protected parkland. #Wimbledon #Planning #AELTC #MetropolitanOpenLand
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
🧵1/3 🎾 #SaveWimbledonPark campaigners gathered at 6:30am on Wimbledon's opening day, wearing giant foam ears, marking 5 years of @wimbledonltc.bsky.social #AELTC consultations they say haven't listened. www.cjag.org/2026/07/06/w... #Wimbledon #SW19
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Wimbledon expansion: Protesters claim that the Tennis Club is not listening
Before the first ball was even served, protesters were already queuing in Wimbledon Park on day one of the championship, not for tickets, but to tell the All England Club: we're still here, and you're...
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The role of Council Leader is not part time ... isn't it something that could have been foreseen when choosing the leader ?
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
While our borough has been baking under record high temperatures, get a rest with our latest newsletter 📧: mailchi.mp/f3dc942917fd... ➡️Wandsworth election results, Labour legacy, Waitrose and the wrong Clapham, Wimbledon in Court , Rough Sleeper Hub, Battersea Bridge, Giant billboard, New housing
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Thread ⬆️ #Wandsworth Local Election results: full analysis Ping: @thechelseacitizen.bsky.social @thelondonjournal.bsky.social @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social @wandsworthlabour.bsky.social @wandsworthlibdems.uk @wandsworth.bsky.social @aydindikerdem.bsky.social @artglyn.bsky.social
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Wandsworth Election results: what it means and what to expect onwards
Across London, Labour is losing ground to the Greens, the Liberal Democrats and Reform. In Wandsworth, the picture is more complicated still — no overall control for the first time in six decades, and...
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
3/3🧵 Labour won more votes than the Conservatives (34% vs 31%). The Greens took 17% and however returning zero councillors, have come very close in 5 wards and Libdems in 2 wards. Full analysis 👇 www.cjag.org/2026/05/12/w...
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Wandsworth Election results: what it means and what to expect onwards
Across London, Labour is losing ground to the Greens, the Liberal Democrats and Reform. In Wandsworth, the picture is more complicated still — no overall control for the first time in six decades, and...
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
2/3🧵The kingmaker Malcolm Grimston has already indicated he intends to allow the Conservatives to take control of the Council, but under conditions: -greater transparency over finances -stronger protections for debate in the chamber -a more collaborative atmosphere at the Town Hall #LocalElections
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
🗳️1/3🧵For the first time since 1964, Wandsworth Council has no overall control. Conservatives 29 seats, Labour 28, with independent Malcolm Grimston now holding the balance of power. Despite losing control, Labour still won the largest borough-wide vote share. Analysis 👇 www.cjag.org/2026/05/12/w...
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Wandsworth Election results: what it means and what to expect onwards
Across London, Labour is losing ground to the Greens, the Liberal Democrats and Reform. In Wandsworth, the picture is more complicated still — no overall control for the first time in six decades, and...
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
🧵 2/2 Council homes built and in pipeline, the affordable housing fight, renters' rights, homelessness, the pressure on Council finances, clashes with national Labour... Full interview with @aydindikerdem.bsky.social 🎙: www.cjag.org/2026/05/02/i... #CouncilTax #CouncilHousing #RentControl
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Interview: Aydin Dikerdem on council homes, rent control, the funding squeeze and why there is still so much more to do in Wandsworth
Four years into Labour's control of Wandsworth, Cabinet Member for Housing Aydin Dikerdem reflects on council homes delivered, planning battles lost and won, and the difficulties but also the joy of w...
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
🏘INTERVIEW: Four years in, what has Labour actually delivered in Wandsworth? @wandsworthlabour.bsky.social housing chief @aydindikerdem.bsky.social speaks at length — and frankly — ahead of #LocalElections2026 #Housing 🧵1/2 www.cjag.org/2026/05/02/i...
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Interview: Aydin Dikerdem on council homes, rent control, the funding squeeze and why there is still so much more to do in Wandsworth
Four years into Labour's control of Wandsworth, Cabinet Member for Housing Aydin Dikerdem reflects on council homes delivered, planning battles lost and won, and the difficulties but also the joy of w...
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
🏗️ 🏘️ Behind a grey shutter on #QueenstownRoad: a hidden yard, a former classic car workshop, and plans for six new houses most people will never notice. 📍 Find where it is + what it could look like: www.cjag.org/2026/04/25/s... #Battersea #Planning #LondonHousing #Wandsworth
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Six new houses may be on the way to a well-hidden part of Queenstown Road
A hidden yard off Queenstown Road — home for years to a classic car restorer — could soon make way for six new houses, tucked behind an archway that most people walk straight past. It's a small, fairl...
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
🎾🌳Detailed explanation of the alternative scheme proposed ofr Wimbledon extension.
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
⚖️🎾🌳Ping ⬆️ @lovebattersea.bsky.social @thechelseacitizen.bsky.social @aydindikerdem.bsky.social @thelondonjournal.bsky.social @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social @wimbledonpark.bsky.social @putneynews.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @mertoncouncil.bsky.social
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
🧵 5/5 📢 #SaveWimbledonPark public meetings (alternative plans by architect Ken McFarlane & tennis planning specialist Richard Rees): 📍 Thu 16 Apr, St Barnabas Church, Southfields SW18 5EP 📍 Wed 22 Apr, St Mark's Church, Wimbledon SW19 7ND 🕖 7–9.30pm Details: www.cjag.org/2026/04/14/w...
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Wimbledon Park Trust case: Judge rules in favour of the Tennis Club but fight continues
The High Court has handed the All England Lawn Tennis Club a significant legal victory, ruling that the former Wimbledon Park golf course is not subject to a statutory public recreation trust. Save Wi...
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
🌳 4/5🧵SWP will appeal, and three battles now run in parallel: 📌Court of Appeal application on the trust 📌Planning appeal (permission already granted) yet to be scheduled 📌Restrictive covenants, breach already conceded by AELTC, Merton Council yet to say if it will enforce
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
🏛️3/5🧵And yesterday the #HouseOfLords passed an amendment, widely seen as tailored to help Wimbledon tennis club, by 162 votes to 55. Labour voted in favour, LibDems against. It will retrospectively strip the public of rights over land sold without following the legal process.
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Wimbledon Park Trust case: Judge rules in favour of the Tennis Club but fight continues
The High Court has handed the All England Lawn Tennis Club a significant legal victory, ruling that the former Wimbledon Park golf course is not subject to a statutory public recreation trust. Save Wi...
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
⚖️ 2/5🧵 The judge ruled on 3 grounds: 📌 The course was never opened to the public, no trust ever arose 📌 The 1960s reorganisation was administrative, not trust-creating 📌 A trust only arises when land is actually used for public recreation, which it never was #PublicLand #PlanningLaw #HighCourt
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
⚖️🎾🌳 1/5 🧵 #HighCourt rules comprehensively for @wimbledonltc.bsky.social #AELTC: the former golf course is not — and never has been — subject to a statutory public recreation trust. #SaveWimbledonPark say they are "disappointed" and will seek permission to appeal. www.cjag.org/2026/04/14/w...
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Wimbledon Park Trust case: Judge rules in favour of the Tennis Club but fight continues
The High Court has handed the All England Lawn Tennis Club a significant legal victory, ruling that the former Wimbledon Park golf course is not subject to a statutory public recreation trust. Save Wi...
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
📢 About journalism and shaping news, see 🧵⬆️: @thisisriverside.bsky.social @lovebattersea.bsky.social @aydindikerdem.bsky.social @thechelseacitizen.bsky.social @thelondonjournal.bsky.social @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social @putneynews.bsky.social @wandsworth.bsky.social
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
🧵 3/3 Shoplifting is real. Staff safety matters. But in 2026, when trust in media is already fragile, getting the location wrong isn’t trivial. It shapes how readers understand cause, scale and blame, and amplifies a story beyond what the facts support.👇 www.cjag.org/2026/04/11/w...
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Waitrose and the wrong Clapham: How a shoplifting row became a national story
A dismissed supermarket worker, a bag of Lindt Easter eggs and a slow news weekend: the ingredients for a story that went national within hours. What followed exposed not just the national media's app...
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
🧵 2/3 Many reports linked it to disturbances on Clapham High Street, a different place in a different borough. By fusing two separate incidents, it helped feed a bigger narrative: broken streets, lawless youth, a city out of control.👇 www.cjag.org/2026/04/11/w...
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Waitrose and the wrong Clapham: How a shoplifting row became a national story
A dismissed supermarket worker, a bag of Lindt Easter eggs and a slow news weekend: the ingredients for a story that went national within hours. What followed exposed not just the national media's app...
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
🧵 1/3 Several national outlets got a basic fact wrong in one of Easter’s biggest stories: the Waitrose incident happened in St John’s Road, Clapham Junction (Battersea, Wandsworth), not Clapham. That matters, because geography shapes how stories are understood.👇 www.cjag.org/2026/04/11/w...
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Waitrose and the wrong Clapham: How a shoplifting row became a national story
A dismissed supermarket worker, a bag of Lindt Easter eggs and a slow news weekend: the ingredients for a story that went national within hours. What followed exposed not just the national media's app...
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🧵 4/4 CJI has published a "green political pantone" to help residents tell the parties apart. @thelondonjournal.bsky.social
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🧵 3/4 The ones least amused: @greenwandsworth.bsky.social , who now doorstep voters as the " #RealGreenParty " — and are watching a borough-wide scramble for green ink quietly drain their print budget.
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🧵 2/4 Wandsworth Conservatives are calling it plagiarism: "We were first and switched in 2022. They have absolutely no ideas of their own." The Lib Dems are eyeing their own shade. Reform? Their leaflets have "a subtle undertone" — but the party insists it's "UK born."
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🧵 1/4 🗳️ @wandsworthlabour.bsky.social is reportedly rebranding as "Wandsworth Green Lab" after a recent by-election, ditching the red rose for green leaflets and a "deconstructed logo" (that some compare to the official Council's logo). #UKPolitics 🔗 www.cjag.org/2026/04/01/a...
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After Gorton and Denton by-election, local Labour rebrands as “Wandsworth Green Lab”
In what insiders describe as a bold act of pragmatism, the local Labour party is reportedly preparing to rename itself Wandsworth Green Lab, a move designed to place as much distance as possible betwe...
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
A 24m² LED billboard planned opposite #Battersea Arts Centre has been withdrawn. Concerns centred on scale, light pollution, and the spread of large-format advertising in residential streets. Application pulled before decision — but could return www.cjag.org/2026/03/26/a... #Wandsworth
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Plans for giant digital billboard withdrawn opposite Battersea Arts Centre
Plans for a giant digital billboard opposite Battersea Arts Centre have been withdrawn, after attracting objections from residents and raising concerns about the spread of large-format advertising in ...
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Communication has been an issue for the Labour administration. See another hiccup: www.cjag.org/2024/03/07/t...
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EXCLUSIVE: Full investigation into the "faux pas" in Labour's communication on an official document designed for publication
If the common perception of Council meetings is that they are dull and boring, the end of the year seems to be an exception to the rule, at least in Wandsworth Council. The Conservative Council had it...
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
4/4 Read our full analysis of the Council's finances and the latest debate where the argument of the frozen Council Tax was reapeated over and over again: www.cjag.org/2026/03/12/a...
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A financial timebomb: what Wandsworth isn’t saying about council tax
Behind the tax ‘freeze’ rhetoric, a a significant financial pressure is building in Wandsworth. Changes to Whitehall’s funding formula will strip millions from the borough and implicitly assumes far h...
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
3/4 In the full Council meeting this month, Conservatives Cllr Kim Caddy admitted "both sides are guilty of this" in response to Labour Cllr @aydindikerdem.bsky.social who said: "Every single year you did exactly the same thing" Watch: youtu.be/s1BA2W_Knh0?...
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Wandsworth Budget blackhole: a heated debate
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
2/4 CJI raised the issue 3 years and explained the misleading statement already used at the time. As we wrote: "During the campaign, Labour was convinced that in order to win the elections, they needed to play the Conservatives’ game of low Council Tax." www.cjag.org/2023/03/18/i...
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Is Labour misleading Wandsworth residents on its Council tax rhetoric?
A small increase in the Council Tax would be considered by many as a tour de force, as the new council has implemented many new projects since coming to power in May 2022. However, the current communi...
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Clapham Junction Insider @cjinsider.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
1/4🔎🗳️ @wandsworthlabour.bsky.social & Wandsworth Council accused of misleading voters over ‘frozen’ tax bills by @ukstatsauth (in response to a complaint from @conservatives.bsky.social ). Full letter: uksa.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/corresponden...
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Letter from Penny Young to Cllr Simon Hogg – Council Tax increases
Dear Cllr Simon Hogg,  As Interim Chair of the UK Statistics Authority, which oversees the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR), I am writing regarding statements made by Wandsworth Council that it...
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